Hi, I'm John Donovan, host and moderator of Intelligent Squared U.S. Debates.

Well with the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding the Affordable Health Care Act, it may

be that President Obama has secured the legislative cornerstone of his entire presidential legacy.

But is Obama care now finally set in stone?

Or is the recent Supreme Court ruling just a setback for his opponents who are still determined

to repeal the law?

Well we'd like to take a moment to look back at a debate.

We held in January 2014, just four years after Obama care was signed into law, the motion

being debated that night was, Obama care is now beyond rescue.

The side arguing for the motion includes Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a practicing physician and

former deputy commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, his debate partner, writer

and columnist Megan Maggardo, opposing them and against the motion, political commentator

and columnist Jonathan Shate and his partner, Dr. Douglas Kamarow, a family physician and

former assistant surgeon general.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb begins the debate with his introduction of the seemingly self-contradictory

aspects of the law itself.

When it comes to Obamacare, most of the focus is on the broken website and the problems

in rolling people into the coverage.

But the real failures of this plan go well beyond the internet.

They're embedded in the structure of the law and they'll become more acute as this scheme

unfolds.

And tonight I want to briefly address some of the paradoxes embedded in this law.

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